Thursday, October 16, 2003

Call Your Rep Today Today's Featured Articles = Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying - The Widening Crusade,         by Sydney H. Schanberg = Censored! Neocon's plans for global domination top the annual list of censored stories         by Camille T. Taiara = The Sins of September 11,        By William Rivers QUOTE OF THE DAY "Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now through our moral & spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood." - - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. KNOW YOUR HISTORY - OCTOBER 16th 1940 -- US: Dave Dellinger & 7 Union Theological Seminary students refuse to register for the Draft. 1967 -- US: October 16-22: Stop the Draft Week: Anti-draft/draft-card "turn-in" rallies: Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Portland. Organized by National Mobilization Committee, a broad coalition of pacifist, religious, & radical groups. 1,158 young men return draft cards in 18 U.S. cities. 1985 -- Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip 1992 -- Nobel peace prize awarded to Rigoberta Menchu, Quiche Maya Indian, for her work against human rights abuses in Guatemala. http://www.biochem.uthscsa.edu/natnet/archive/nl/9211/0003.html RHINO HERE: A week ago, it looked like the shrub gang would get the $87 billion they want from the American taxpayers for their Iraq war & occupation. But with hundreds of thousands of people sending emails, tens of thousands of phone calls, and constituent visits by thousands of Americans, more & more Senators & Congresspeople are declaring they'll be voting No. The vote is scheduled for today in the House & Friday in the Senate. Over the next 24 hours, Working Assets & True Majority are working to deliver a flood of calls & emails to Congress telling them to take a stand. The Rhino hereby urges you to join him in calling your Representatives & Senators right now. It'll just take a few minutes. Urge them to vote AGAINST shrub's additional $87 billion request for Iraq. To find you reps' phone numbers, GO TO: Contacting Congress (& Other US Policymakers): http://www.eff.org/congress.html Sydney Schanberg was the NY Times reporter whose Cambodian experiences were chronicled in the movie, "The Killing Fields." He now writes for The Village Voice and here warns of ample evidence that shrub has no intentions of stopping his killing crusade at Iraq. Bush's War Plan Is Scarier Than He's Saying The Widening Crusade by Sydney H. Schanberg, Village Voice, October 15 - 21, 2003 If some wishful Americans are still hoping President Bush will acknowledge that his imperial foreign policy has stumbled in Iraq and needs fixing or reining in, they should put aside those reveries. He's going all the way — and taking us with him. The Israeli bombing raid on Syria October 5 was an expansion of the Bush policy, carried out by the Sharon government but with the implicit approval of Washington. The government in Iran, said to be seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, reportedly expects to be the next target.... MORE: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0342/schanberg.php Sonoma State University has had a 27 year project studying the largest news stories which receive the smallest amount of media coverage. This piece reports on this year's findings. Censored! Neocon's plans for global domination top the annual list of stories ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media. by Camille T. Taiara, Missoula Independent, 10/9/2003 If there's one influence that has shaped worldwide political events over the past year, it's the extent to which the Bush administration has exploited the events of Sept. 11, 2001, to solidify its military and economic control of the world at the expense of democracy, true justice, and the environment. But George W. Bush hasn't simply been responding to world events. The agenda his administration has followed fits perfectly with a clearly defined plan that's been in place for more than a decade. The neoconservative blueprint for United States military domination is hardly a secret. A group called the Project for a New American Century-a think tank founded by hawks who are now in prominent jobs in the White House-released a version of it three years ago. The document is shocking in its candor: It asserts that the United States should be moving unilaterally to assert military control around the globe, and that all that's necessary to jump-start the effort is a "new Pearl Harbor." Yet none of the major news media in this country have reported on this document or on the fact that Bush is so closely following its script. That's the biggest "censored" story in the nation last year, according to Sonoma State University's Project Censored, a 27-year-old program dedicated to shining some light on the shortcomings of the major news media... ...What follows are Project Censored's Top 10 censored or underreported stories for last year: READ THE ARTICLE AT: http://www.missoulanews.com/News/News.asp?no=3576 Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE by William Rivers Pitt rebukes Republican claims that the Clinton Administration so badly cut the legs off the intelligence community that it was their fault that the 9/11 attacks were successful. Much of the piece is based on the book,  "The Clinton Wars" by Sidney Blumenthal. 7:51:08 AM    comment

The Sins of September 11 The Sins of September 11 By William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, 13 October 2003 ...The two great myths that have settled across the nation, beyond the Hussein-9/11 connection, are that Clinton did not do enough during his tenure to stop the spread of radical terrorist organizations like al Qaeda, and that the attacks themselves could not have been anticipated or stopped. Blumenthal's insider perspective on these matters bursts the myths entirely, and reveals a level of complicity regarding the attacks within the journalistic realm and the conservative political ranks that is infuriating and disturbing.   Starting in 1995, Clinton took actions against terrorism that were unprecedented in American history. He poured billions and billions of dollars into counterterrorism activities across the entire spectrum of the intelligence community. He poured billions more into the protection of critical infrastructure. He ordered massive federal stockpiling of antidotes and vaccines to prepare for a possible bioterror attack. He order a reorganization of the intelligence community itself, ramming through reforms and new procedures to address the demonstrable threat. Within the National Security Council, "threat meetings" were held three times a week to assess looming conspiracies. His National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, prepared a voluminous dossier on al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, actively tracking them across the planet. Clinton raised the issue of terrorism in virtually every important speech he gave in the last three years of his tenure. In 1996, Clinton delivered a major address to the United Nations on the matter of international terrorism, calling it "The enemy of our generation."   Behind the scenes, he leaned vigorously on the leaders of nations within the terrorist sphere. In particular, he pushed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to assist him in dealing with the threat from neighboring Afghanistan and its favorite guest, Osama bin Laden. Before Sharif could be compelled to act, he was thrown out of office by his own army. His replacement, Pervez Musharraf, pointedly refused to do anything to assist Clinton in dealing with these threats. Despite these and other diplomatic setbacks, terrorist cell after terrorist cell were destroyed across the world, and bomb plots against American embassies were thwarted. Because of security concerns, these victories were never revealed to the American people until very recently... READ IT ALL AT: http://truthout.org/docs_03/101303A.shtml "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:33:28 AM    comment

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